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My Elk Hunt...The Good...The Bad...And The Ugly
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<blockquote data-quote="Ian M" data-source="post: 12922" data-attributes="member: 25"><p>Roadrunner,</p><p>Some hunts are just great trips, I had one a while ago also. Best to bite the bullet and enjoy everything else that is worthwhile, not finding game is frustrating but being in the mountains with good guys is always a huge bonus. Just beats the hell out of being in an office. </p><p></p><p>Have been on hunts were we ran out of food, guide could not tie his boots without an instruction book, horses disappeared every morning, no water to land a floatplane on the moose hunting lake, spent more time searching for a place to hunt than hunting for game, guide gets the entire pack string hungup and lost - about ten times has to retie the panniers since they are constantly falling off, three hour ride turns into a 9 hour ride to hell, wrangler asks me to shoot a horse so he could retrieve the panniers (no thanks...), cook throws a chicken into a huge pot of dirty boiling water, doesn't even peel the potatoes etc. tosses vegies into the bubbling mass of floating chicken fat and grease, waits till the mess cools off and informs us that supper is ready, lots of freeze-dried ice-cream bars but no real food in the pannier, guide has a pee then starts to make a shore lunch without evening rinsing his hands in the lake, no water for three freaking days because the spring ran dry, mouse **** in the crackers, guide sweeps garbage down through the cracks in the floor of the cabin, guide stabs himself to the shinbone as he is fleshing a cape, rooky pilot cannot find a lake you are to camp on in the arctic, your rifle gets lost so you have to share with another hunter (has happened three times), miss three airline flights in one day due to weather, no outfitter or representative at airport, wrangler does not tie saddle properly on horse so you do a slow-motion 180 degree roll off the horse (horse looks back at you like you are really stupid - you are), horse snags your rifle on a four inch tree and lunges forward, breaks scabbard off saddle and moves your kneebone about three inches to one side, partner gets bound-up - chews a half a box of chocalote tasting laxitive - not pretty about twenty minutes later, glasses knocked off your face while trying to stay upright on a frigging horse, outfitter got us tags for wrong zone, elk bugling outside cabin as we tried to sleep but could not hunt them since tags were for another zone, (season had closed in the cabin area), seven hunters and one guide on a two on one hunt - this is only a tiny sample of how much fun hunts can be.</p><p></p><p>You are correct, some hunts are more weather sensitive than others. How about this one.... The pilot taking you in to camp says, "I don't know why you are at this camp, there ain't no critters for twenty miles from here... been too warm." - and things go downhill from there - you just got to make the best of it.</p><p></p><p>Hope you do get a good elk hunt some day. Thanks for a great story, not many guides believe rifles will kill as far as our do.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ian M, post: 12922, member: 25"] Roadrunner, Some hunts are just great trips, I had one a while ago also. Best to bite the bullet and enjoy everything else that is worthwhile, not finding game is frustrating but being in the mountains with good guys is always a huge bonus. Just beats the hell out of being in an office. Have been on hunts were we ran out of food, guide could not tie his boots without an instruction book, horses disappeared every morning, no water to land a floatplane on the moose hunting lake, spent more time searching for a place to hunt than hunting for game, guide gets the entire pack string hungup and lost - about ten times has to retie the panniers since they are constantly falling off, three hour ride turns into a 9 hour ride to hell, wrangler asks me to shoot a horse so he could retrieve the panniers (no thanks...), cook throws a chicken into a huge pot of dirty boiling water, doesn't even peel the potatoes etc. tosses vegies into the bubbling mass of floating chicken fat and grease, waits till the mess cools off and informs us that supper is ready, lots of freeze-dried ice-cream bars but no real food in the pannier, guide has a pee then starts to make a shore lunch without evening rinsing his hands in the lake, no water for three freaking days because the spring ran dry, mouse **** in the crackers, guide sweeps garbage down through the cracks in the floor of the cabin, guide stabs himself to the shinbone as he is fleshing a cape, rooky pilot cannot find a lake you are to camp on in the arctic, your rifle gets lost so you have to share with another hunter (has happened three times), miss three airline flights in one day due to weather, no outfitter or representative at airport, wrangler does not tie saddle properly on horse so you do a slow-motion 180 degree roll off the horse (horse looks back at you like you are really stupid - you are), horse snags your rifle on a four inch tree and lunges forward, breaks scabbard off saddle and moves your kneebone about three inches to one side, partner gets bound-up - chews a half a box of chocalote tasting laxitive - not pretty about twenty minutes later, glasses knocked off your face while trying to stay upright on a frigging horse, outfitter got us tags for wrong zone, elk bugling outside cabin as we tried to sleep but could not hunt them since tags were for another zone, (season had closed in the cabin area), seven hunters and one guide on a two on one hunt - this is only a tiny sample of how much fun hunts can be. You are correct, some hunts are more weather sensitive than others. How about this one.... The pilot taking you in to camp says, "I don't know why you are at this camp, there ain't no critters for twenty miles from here... been too warm." - and things go downhill from there - you just got to make the best of it. Hope you do get a good elk hunt some day. Thanks for a great story, not many guides believe rifles will kill as far as our do. [/QUOTE]
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